This may be the problem here in a nutshell. We describe the world in terms of constraints, we can call them "laws". There are two types, the laws of p...
What I believe is that there are objective aspects of tonal music, just like there are objective aspects of rhythm. In rhythm we find it in the repeti...
You cannot pass this off as apokrisis' point, because this is completely distinct from and inconsistent with, what apokrisis argues. Apokrisis assigns...
We cannot ignore the facts of neurological involvement in the free will act. The question for the metaphysician is the cause of such activity. It seem...
As I said, "We do not know where the free will act derives from...". Perhaps, you for some reason, think that free will and intentionality are example...
OK Erik, I'm willing to compromise on this point. I agree that there is always some sort of overarching idea, or notion of "better", even if its just ...
This is the same problem which I pointed to. Downward causation puts the effect prior to the cause. The atom only exists after the relationships betwe...
The problem is that context itself, cannot validate the assumed unity. The parts of the atom, being in proximity to each other does not give existence...
Why would you say that the difference in stability of the neutron is a function of the atom, rather than a function of the relationships between the p...
I've been telling apokrisis the very same thing for some time now, to no avail. It's quite clear that this notion of top-down causation is completely ...
It is mathematics which expresses eternal properties, and to the extent that music partakes in mathematics, it has eternal properties. Do you understa...
The "forment" of the quantum vacuum? I assume you mean foment, but that still doesn't make any sense. Nor does the claim that the quantum vacuum gener...
That's the point I was getting at. What a surprise. This incoherency is considered by some to be "one of physics foundational facts". You see what hap...
OK, but the issue was whether or not it is possible to have a perfect circle, such that you could not tell its rate of spinning, or even whether or no...
Wouldn't further spin increase the rate of spin? Do you think that the rate of spin is not an actual difference? If not, then there is no difference b...
In the US, there is a long standing tradition that the media reports things as they see fit to report them. It's called freedom of the press. Politica...
I'll give you a hint as to how to respond. Do like others confronted with the same, or similar, argument do, insist that what I've done is a semantic ...
The analogy referred to a spinning circle, and by this description, "spinning" implies necessarily that it is actual. Therefore the analogy refers to ...
The problem is that the law is a sort of "ideal" description, just like the perfect circle is an ideal. How the ideal relates to what actually exists ...
The perfect circle though cannot be a real, or natural figure, and this is indicated by the irrational nature of pi. So the analogy of spinning a circ...
I don't think that the practise of criticizing is as clear as you make it sound. To take your example, one can simply say that the dish is lacking som...
Newton's laws were not written as hypotheses, to produce testable predictions in order to determine the reliability of the hypotheses. They were writt...
I do not agree with this point. We can quite readily criticize, and point out what is bad, without offering an alternative, what is better. There is n...
Now my point. Isn't this "content" just belief? That the word "square" refers to a specific shape, is dependent on people believing this. If everyone ...
Just to let you know, I don't agree with this. Induction is not "hypothesis to experience". It is a generalization derived from experience, such as a ...
The observations were made prior to Einstein. Relativity theory involved the inductive conclusion that all motions are relative. Einstein took another...
Clearly, what the words mean is not irrelevant, to the contrary, it is the content. If we do not agree that "blue" is the word which refers to the col...
Most likely when he finds out that he can't do what he wants through legal means, he'll resort to illegal means, as his attitude seems to be that the ...
We do hear a "thing out there", just like we see things. We hear the thing which makes the noise, the French horn, the violin, the dog barking, we alw...
I would not be so quick to focus on the difference between hearing and seeing. What we see are differences of colour, and these are wavelength/frequen...
The point though, is that the colour which we call "blue" is the colour of the sky. What makes it true that the sky is blue, is the fact that people b...
Are you saying that people believing that "the sky is blue" is true, is not evidence that "the sky is blue" is true? What else would qualify as eviden...
When we discussed politics you confessed to believing in God. Clearly that's not the case, or you wouldn't be asking such silly questions now would yo...
I think audio is too difficult. It adds the dimension of comprehending the sounds, and remembering what was said. Playback would be required, to maint...
"I" refers to a combination of body and soul, so in no sense did "I" exist prior to that combination. I don't see any reason to accept this principle....
You didn't have any memory before birth therefore you don't remember anything before birth. In fact, your memory was just developing at birth and that...
I have no problem with this basic principle, that Mind and Matter appear to be the same, because neither philosophy nor physics has been able to deter...
I've read enough philosophy to know that the “weird-sounding portions" may be impossible to fix. They seem to be inherent within philosophy, as a func...
QM is the "trump" card. But if we don't like the idea of trump, and think it's a cheat, we can just make rules allowing us to ignore whoever's playing...
How the non-physical moves the physical is a complex issue, this involves free will, intention, etc.. I believe it can only be understood through a th...
Traditional dualism would not say that the soul is insubstantial, because the assumption would be of a substance dualism. What the mind grasps is the ...
The bridge is "matter" itself. Physical objects exist as forms, we describe their properties. The human body is such a physical form. We assume that p...
I never said that one refutes the other, remember, I said we establish compatibility between the two. The heliocentric model of the solar system does ...
OK, we both seem to be saying the same thing, the straight line is really curved. It has an "intrinsic curvature", so its straightness is just an illu...
Show me a two dimensional creature living on a two dimensional surface. That's fictitious. Why do you need to refer to a fictitious scenario to demons...
To say that it "appears as a straight line", indicates that you recognize this as an illusion, which is not the true reality of the situation. The str...
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